Allmond, William Stewart, 1891-1973
Existence: 1891 - 1973
Person
Dates
- Existence: 1891 - 1973
Found in 1 Collection or Record:
W. Stewart Allmond, 1969 June 10, July 3
Found in:
Audiovisual Collections
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1970-370, Oral histories on work and daily life in the Brandywine Valley
File — Box 2, Reel: 31
Accession: 1970-370
Scope and Content:
Interviewers: John Scafidi and Faith Pizor in Newark, Delaware
Allmond's interviews detail the work environment at the Wilmington plant site in the early 1900s until the 1940s; various markets for car wheels; the expansion of the company and acquisition of Morton Poole Company and Nazel Engineering Works; and the effects of the Great Depression on Lobdell, which led to the company's purchase by Walter Lippincott and the United Engineering and Foundry Company in the late 1940s.
Dates:
1969 June 10; July 3
